Mom's Lasagna

Tonight we're having lasagna for dinner. Pasta dishes such as lasagna freeze great. Assemble the dish as normal, but don't cook the noodles. Drizzle about 1/4 cup water over your assembled lasagna, cover with foil and the baking dish lid. Freeze. Thaw in the fridge and bake as usual. Here is my mom's recipe. It's the one I have always used.

Lasagna
1 lb hamburger
1-2 cloves garlic
1 chopped onion
1 can tomato sauce
½ c water
2 tsp dried oregano
2 tsp dried basil
½ tsp thyme
1 can tomato soup
2 tsp vinegar
9 lasagna noodles, uncooked
1 pt cottage cheese
1 pt ricotta cheese
½ lb mozzarella
Parmesan

Brown hamburger garlic and onion, drain grease. Add tomato sauce, spices, water, soup, and vinegar. Simmer 30 minutes. Assemble by layering noodles, ricotta cheese, cottage cheese, meat sauce, and mozzarella, repeat three times. Sprinkle top with Parmesan cheese if desired. Cook at 350 for about an hour until bubbly.


The assembly process for a large batch. This is a quadruple batch that I put into one 9x13 and six 8x8 pans.